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  • White Nights

    And Other Stories

    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky ...
    A collection of short fiction from one of nineteenth-century Russia’s greatest novelists, the author of Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov.These short stories offer a dazzling glimpse of life in the Russian Empire and penetrating portraits of unforgettable characters. In the titular story, a lonely man has a chance meeting with a sad young woman. Learning that she is in love with ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Shōgun

    by James Clavell ...
    Series Book 1 - The Asian Saga
    The classic epic novel of feudal Japan that captured the heart of a culture and the imagination of the world, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author and unparalleled master of historical fiction, James ClavellAfter Englishman John Blackthorne is lost at sea, he awakens in a place few Europeans know of and even fewer have seen—Nippon. Thrust into the closed society that is seventeenth-century ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Aeneid

    by Virgil ...
    Translated by Robert Fitzgerald ...
    Series series Vintage Classics
    "Fitzgerald's [translation] is so decisively the best modern Aeneid that it is unthinkable that anyone will want to use any other version for a long time to come." —New York Review of BooksVirgil's great epic transforms the Homeric tradition into a triumphal statement of the Roman civilizing mission—translated by Robert Fitzgerald. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Left Hand of Darkness

    50th Anniversary Edition

    by Ursula K. Le Guin, Charlie Jane Anders ...
    **50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION—WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY DAVID MITCHELL AND A NEW AFTERWORD BY CHARLIE JANE ANDERSUrsula K. Le Guin’s groundbreaking work of science fiction—winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards.**A lone human ambassador is sent to the icebound planet of Winter, a world without sexual prejudice, where the inhabitants’ gender is fluid. His goal is to facilitate Winter’s inclusion in a ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Soul Of Kindness

    by Elizabeth Taylor ...
    Series Book 363 - Virago Modern Classics
    INTRODUCED BY PHILIP HENSHER'Elizabeth Taylor is finally being recognised as an important British author: an author of great subtlety, great compassion and great depth. As a reader, I have found huge pleasure in returning to Taylor's novels and short stories many times over. As a writer I've returned to her too - in awe of her achievements, and trying to work out how she does it' SARAH WATERSA ... Read more

    $2.99 USD $0.99 USD

  • I, Robot

    by Isaac Asimov ...
    Series Book 1 - The Robot Series
    This classic science fiction masterwork by Isaac Asimov weaves stories about robots, humanity, and the deep questions of existence into a novel of shocking intelligence and heart.“A must-read for science-fiction buffs and literature enjoyers alike.”—The GuardianI, Robot, the first and most widely read book in Asimov’s Robot series, forever changed the world’s perception of artificial intelligence. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Planet of the Damned

    by Harry Harrison ...
    Hugo Award Finalist: A mystery at the heart of a desert planet and its ruling class must be solved in this thrilling tale from a Grand Master of Science Fiction.Brion Brandd has just triumphed in the planetary contest called the “Twenties, ”a series of physical and mental trials meant to push contestants to their limits. But before he can fully recover from these tests, he’s recruited by former ... Read more

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  • Discourses, Fragments, Handbook

    by Epictetus, Christopher Gill ...
    Translated by Robin Hard ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'About things that are within our power and those that are not.' Epictetus's Discourses have been the most widely read and influential of all writings of Stoic philosophy, from antiquity onwards. They set out the core ethical principles of Stoicism in a form designed to help people put them into practice and to use them as a basis for leading a good human life. Epictetus was a teacher, and a freed ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Brideshead Revisited

    by Evelyn Waugh ...
    Selected by Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of the century and called "Evelyn Waugh's finest achievement" by the New York Times, Brideshead Revisited is a stunning exploration of desire, duty, and memory.The wellsprings of desire and the impediments to love come brilliantly into focus in Evelyn Waugh's masterpiece — a novel that immerses us in the glittering and seductive world of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $3.99 USD

  • The Stranger

    by Albert Camus ...
    Series series Vintage International
    With the intrigue of a psychological thriller, The Stranger—Camus's masterpiece—gives us the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach. With an Introduction by Peter Dunwoodie; translated by Matthew Ward.Behind the subterfuge, Camus explores what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd" and describes the condition of reckless alienation ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Hard Times

    by Charles Dickens ...
    Series Book 52 - Macmillan Collector's Library
    A novel of social and moral themes, Hard Times is the archetypal Dickens novel, filled with family difficulties, estrangement, rotten values and unhappiness. Published in 1854, it is set in the imaginary Coketown, an industrial city inspired by Preston, and tells the story of the family of Thomas Gradgrind, a man obsessed with misguided 'Utilitarian' values that make him trust facts, statistics ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: By Mark Twain :

    by Mark Twain ...
    Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (often shortened to Huck Finn) is a novel written by American humorist Mark Twain. It is commonly used and accounted as one of the first Great American Novels. It is also one of the first major American novels written using Local Color Regionalism, or vernacular, told in the first person by the eponymous Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, best friend of Tom Sawyer and hero of ... Read more

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  • The Yellow Wallpaper

    by Charlotte Perkins Gilman ...
    The first edition of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" appeared in The New England Magazine in January 1892. It is recognized as a key early work of American feminist writing because of the way it captures ideas toward women's mental and physical health in the 19th century. The young woman and her spouse are portrayed in the story. He makes her take a rest remedy after ... Read more

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  • Out of the Silent Planet

    by C. S. Lewis ...
    The story starts out by following an unnamed pedestrian taking a walking tour throughout the English countryside. The man is later identified as Dr. Ransom, a linguistics professor. He is looking for a place to stay the night and stumbles upon a small cottage where a woman is desperately waiting for her son to return. Ransom agrees to help her in hopes he might be able to stay the night at The ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • The First Men In The Moon

    by H.G. Wells ...
    Series Book 149 - S.F. MASTERWORKS
    'As we saw it first it was the wildest and most desolate of scenes. We were in an enormous amphitheatre, a vast circular plain, the floor of the giant crater. Its cliff-like wall closed us in on every side . . .'Thanks to the discovery of an anti-gravity metal, Cavorite, two Victorian Englishman decide to tackle the most prestigious goal - space travel. They construct a sphere that will ultimately ... Read more

    $3.99 USD $2.99 USD

  • Wuthering Heights: Modern English Version

    Today's English with Yesterday's Eloquence for Easy Reading

    by Emily Brontë ...
    Translated by Harvest Research ...
    Wuthering Heights Modern English Version by Emily Bronte is a beloved classic that has been captivating readers for over 150 years. The story follows the passionate and tumultuous relationship between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, set against the backdrop of the wild and unpredictable Yorkshire moors. Their love is doomed from the start, as their families' bitter rivalry threatens to tear ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Ghosts in the House: Tales of Terror by A. C. Benson and R. H. Benson (Collins Chillers)

    by A. C. Benson, R. H. Benson ...
    Series series Collins Chillers
    A collection of rare ghosts and horror stories by the brothers of one of the finest writers of the genre, E. F. Benson.The Benson brothers – Arthur Christopher, Edward Frederic and Robert Hugh – were one of the most extraordinary and prolific literary families, between them writing more than 150 books. Arthur alone left four million words of diary, although his most lasting legacy is the words to ... Read more

    $7.49 USD $5.49 USD

  • Frankenstein

    by Mary Shelley ...
    Series Book 78 - S.F. MASTERWORKS
    Brilliant, driven Victor Frankenstein has at last realised his greatest ambition. The scientist has succeeded in creating intelligent life. But when his creature first stirs, Frankenstein realises he has made a monster. And, abandoned by its maker and shunned by everyone who sees it, the Doctor's creation sets out to destroy him and all that he holds dear.Mary Shelley's FRANKENSTEIN remains one of ... Read more

    $1.99 USD $0.99 USD

  • Notes from Underground and the Double

    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky ...
    Translated by Ronald Wilks ...
    'That sense of the meaninglessness of existence that runs through much of twentieth-century writing - from Conrad and Kafka, to Beckett and beyond - starts in Dostoyevsky's work' Malcolm BradburyAlienated from society and paralysed by a sense of his own insignificance, the anonymous narrator of Dostoyevsky's Notes from Underground tells the story of his tortured life. With bitter irony, he ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Complete Works

    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Sam Vaseghi ...
    This volume presents the complete novels and storie of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky (33 works.) Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky (1821 – 1881) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher. Dostoevsky's literary works explore human psychology in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century Russia, and engage with a variety of ... Read more

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  • Sonnets From The Portuguese (Mobi Classics)

    by Elizabeth Barrett Browning ...
    Sonnets from the Portuguese, written ca. 1845-1846 and first published in 1850, is a collection of forty-four love sonnets written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The poems largely chronicle the period leading up to her 1846 marriage to Robert Browning. The collection was acclaimed and popular even in the poet's lifetime and it remains so today. Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. ... Read more

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  • TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA

    by Jules Verne ...
    Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, novel by Jules Verne, first published in French as Vingt Mille Lieues sous les mers in 1869–70. It is perhaps the most popular book of his science-fiction series Voyages extraordinaires (1863–1910).Professor Pierre Aronnax, the narrator of the story, boards an American frigate commissioned to investigate a rash of attacks on international shipping by what is ... Read more

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  • Orlando

    A Biography

    by Virginia Woolf ...
    “Come, come! I’m sick to death of this particular self. I want another.”As his tale begins, Orlando is a passionate sixteen-year-old nobleman whose days are spent in rowdy revelry, filled with the colorful delights of Queen Elizabeth I’s court. By the close, three centuries have passed, and he will have transformed into a thirty-six-year-old woman in the year 1928. Orlando’s journey is also an ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • The Old Man and the Sea

    by Ernest Hemingway ...
    The Old Man and the Sea was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953, and the year after, the Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Ernest Hemingway in 1954. It was the last major work of fiction written by Hemingway that was published during his lifetime. One of his most famous works, this short novel is already a modern classic. It is the superbly told, tragic story of Santiago, an ... Read more

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